Art, literature & history
The Sleeping Shepherd
1857
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on chine collé
- Dimensions
- plate: 12.3 × 10.4 cm (4 13/16 × 4 1/8 in.) sheet: 33.7 × 24.9 cm (13 1/4 × 9 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.143.105
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Samuel Palmer. The Sleeping Shepherd. Samuel Palmer; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow, 1968). CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Sleeping Shepherd — Samuel Palmer. 1857.
Medium: etching on chine collé.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 12.3 × 10.4 cm (4 13/16 × 4 1/8 in.) sheet: 33.7 × 24.9 cm (13 1/4 × 9 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.143.105. Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow, 1968).
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.